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Timothy Garton Ash on Europe, Past and Present

The Good Fight

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The Importance of Free Speech in a Global Connected World

Yasha: Your penultimate book was about free speech and 10 principles for free speech in a global connected world. What is it that debates about free speech commonly lack at the moment? Yasha: I narrowed it down to the challenge of combining freedom and diversity which is clearly absolutely central to contemporary Europe because we become multicultural societies. The reason we are not a hyperpolarized society after Brexit can be given in three letters BBC, he says.

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